Display Monitors go to sleep even in fullscreen

[Ericlegacy]

I don't know if others are experiencing this issue with their PCs. But with Metaphor specifically, I have it set in Windows where my monitors will go to sleep after 10min. Any other game or fullscreen app, it's working as intended. Where they don't go into standby mode.

I had this happen the hard way by watching long cutscenes, putting my controller down, and then my monitors go to sleep. The problem with that is, it also crashes my game.

I have done all I can really do to figure it out:

1. Making sure full screen is set.

2. Tried just a single monitor. Even unplugged each monitor from the GPU one time.

3. Disabled HDR, Gsync, and VRR.

4. Lowered refresh rate.

5. Disabled full screen optimizations from the properties menu of the Methaphor executable.

6. Reinstalled Nvidia graphics drivers with DDU.

7. Disabled Nvidia app and filters.

Also, other games I've tried, Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, etc. Don't have this issue. It's just Metaphor.

If anyone knows of a fix or if this is a known bug, please respond!

I only bring this up because I specifically have my monitors set for a 10min timeout to prevent burn-in of my OLED monitors, and making specific tweaks just for one game seems silly.

[KilikGaia/PledgeZ]

Yeah I'm having issues with screen size too. I don't have a issue with SMT 5 V displaying on my tv but with this game I spent awhile making adjustments and it still doesn't look right. Looks like the game is covered in a gritty white magla snow and jagged lines lol. Mind you I can run Cyberpunk 2077 ultra on my aging gaming laptop.

[Ericlegacy]

Originally posted by KilikGaia/PledgeZ:

Yeah I'm having issues with screen size too. I don't have a issue with SMT 5 V displaying on my tv but with this game I spent awhile making adjustments and it still doesn't look right. Looks like the game is covered in a gritty white magla snow and jagged lines lol. Mind you I can run Cyberpunk 2077 ultra on my aging gaming laptop.

Dang, yeah I'm not sure what's going on with this game specifically on PC. But I always have to turn off the screen timeout in Windows. Otherwise I forget about it, step away for 10+ minutes and my monitors still time out and crashes my game haha Luckily the game is lenient on autosaves. But it's just a little annoyance I hope gets fixed if others are experiencing it!

[VVingman]

Often doesn't do well with my monitor either, but slightly different problem, though wouldn't be surprised it it stems from same issues. In full-screen (not windowed since that causes even more fps lag) half the time it enters a flicker thing (where the screen goes on and off), changing the mode back and forth can fix it but it is very annoying. Tried a number of settings, and other things but doesn't work. Just wish it would work without issues.